Born in Cape Town in 1988 and raised in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, UK-based composer Chris Skipper graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in music in July of 2011. There he studied under Giles Swayne and Robin Holloway, and had consultations with Samuel Adler, John Hopkins and Jeremy Thurlow. Chris is currently studying an MA in Composition for Film and Television at the University of Bristol and will graduate in 2013.